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Best Everglades Poems

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Premium Member Dining In the Everglades
Kind-hearted, loving and compassionate
Dane Ann would jump through hoops to please a friend
But by a treacherous quest she’s beset
In Everglades’ swamps she wants to descend

She...

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Categories: everglades, adventure, animals, funny,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Black Magic Woman
Madame Mistress, ebonies princess,
Southern comforts golden jewel,
A golden beauty down south does dwell.
She hides many secrets beneath her,
Glittering mask of mystery's mystic spells.
A dark priestess...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: everglades, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Florida Nature
Blending in so beautifully in the endless everglades
The heron waits patiently

The warm wind ripples the water
He waits regally

Standing still like a statue in silent blue...

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Categories: everglades, beauty,
Form: Free verse
I Am Florida
I am Florida ,paradise
look around and realise
dreams come true
beneath my skies
   azure seas ,a life serene
egrets wade beside the stream

peace surrounds you like...

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Categories: everglades, nature, me, summer, me,
Form: Rhyme
Joy and Pain of Memories
He is now a band of sky, 
a bird, a cloud, a stream of blue 
drifting by in midafternoon,
a dragonfly, a butterfly, a ray of...

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Categories: everglades, change, father daughter, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Tomorrow's Signature
Yesterday sent its regards in a farewell
letter, 
A gesture of fate intact, sealed for the 
departed,
Or better yet, the progressive harmonies
of God, such as we...

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Categories: everglades, emotions, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mama Bear
Do not mess with Mama Bear; leave her cubs alone
Or the life you place in peril, could well be your own.
Papa Bear can be ferocious...

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Categories: everglades, child, children, love, mother
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Photograph Captured
          Deep in the Florida steamy everglades,
A single blue heron strides in cobalt blue water;
 ...

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Categories: everglades, bird, nature,
Form: Verse
The Hunt
After Legend got blown up along with
all of the city zombies,
I was now the sole survivor and sick and tired of 
hiding out at Hobby...

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Categories: everglades, adventure, humor, murder,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ever At Risk In the Glades
Eyes that shone bright green
stood out in the swamp at night
as crickets serenaded.

Surrounded by scents
in Everglades’ treasure trove,
the eyes slowly moved closer.

Our flashlight revealed
scales and...

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Categories: everglades, animals, nature,
Form: Choka
Home Sweet Home
My tropical paradise along the shore
where ocean sounds soothe and warm breezes invite. 
I will call you home until I live no more.
All my days...

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Categories: everglades, life, nature, people, places,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Palliative
My first new poem presented on my return, composed 3 am , this morning.


PALLIATIVE

Gasping beauty of Life, Love and Nature's treasures
Dawn and its promise, given...

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Categories: everglades, beautiful, blessing, happiness, hope,
Form: Romanticism
The Legendary Kingdom of Florida
You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another...

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Categories: everglades, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insight To the Sights
Forget that first glimpse of the tower of Pisa.
The glorious colorful tulips in their beds at
Keukenhoff Gardens in springtime.
The Eiffel tower blinking in the darkness.
The...

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Categories: everglades, beauty, city, family, life,
Form: Free verse
The Deep South
The deep South has a lot of swamp creatures. The South's got alligators, some frogs, live catfish, bugs (flies, e.g.), and stuff. These here parts...

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Categories: everglades, nature, on writing and
Form: Epic

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